Re:Signal is having technical difficulties
by secfirstmd on Friday January 15, 2021 @08:53PM
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Yeh so true. One of fhe great things about the Open Tech Fund was that it makes it easier for people with open source ideas, like Signal or our own Umbrella security training app, to get funding. Doing that through European funds would be impossible.
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Re:Signal is having technical difficulties
by pabs3 on Saturday January 16, 2021 @12:43AM
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NLnet uses EU funds to help open source projects, in a similar way to OTF:
Re:Signal is having technical difficulties
by oever on Saturday January 16, 2021 @10:01AM
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Not just EU funds, but those are currently the largest funds at NLnet.
NLnet does 'funding as a service'. If you want to fund a particular area of FOSS, we (I work there) can administer that. We provide low overhead funding to FOSS projects and pay particular attention to how the ecosystem benefits from projects.
So 'boring' projects that improve adherence to standards, increase deployments of standards compliant software, test standards compliance are very welcome. Redecentralizing the web requires this work, but few people think that this work is fundable. It is and in our opinion is has a high ROI for society.
I have found that NLnet's funding is very competitive and pretty hard to get.
Re:Signal is having technical difficulties
by setbackreset on Saturday January 16, 2021 @03:24AM
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NLnet seems to have been doing the good fund for quite some time!